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The chancellor’s choices mark a shift in Conservative policy. For once, older people are not given priority

Chancellor’s move to slice a few pounds off national insurance fails to win hearts and minds in Stroud

Letters: Joan Twelves fears the government is determined to keep wielding the axe until there is nothing left; David Blunkett picks apart Jeremy Hunt’s fanciful proposal

Plan is intended to catch those who left the party under Keir Starmer and to create a broader leftwing movement before the election

With over 60 Tory MPs standing down and councillors quitting before council elections, there is a sense party expects a heavy defeat

City Voices: The pressure is on the Bank of England to get it right

Unlock Democracy report notes that path to gender equality in Lords has slowed in recent years

Theresa May doesn't get angry – she gets to work. Like the rest of us, the former prime minister has doubts, ideas, emotions and ambitions, but for decades she kept them something of a secret. May managed to become leader of a nuclear-armed, permanent member of the UN Security Council…

Theresa May joins 94 other MPs who are standing down at the next election – but why?